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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Berlin research institution Daston directed from 1995 to 2019 — during which she built it into <em>one of the world's preeminent centers for the historical study of scientific practice</em> and shaped the research programs that produced her framework on objectivity, rules, and data.
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was founded in 1994 as part of the Max Planck Society's expansion into new research areas following German reunification. Lorraine Daston served as one of its founding directors from 1995 to 2019 — a twenty-four-year tenure during which she built the Institute into arguably the world's leading center for the historical and philosophical study of scientific practice. The Institute's distinctive approach — combining deep historical research with philosophical analysis of conceptual transformations — reflected Daston's own method and trained generations of scholars who have extended her framework across multiple domains.
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The Institute's departmental structure under Daston emphasized thematic research programs rather than traditional disciplinary divisions. Departments focused on specific problems — the history of experimentation, the history of the image in science, the history of scientific observation, the history